https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42594
Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |mediawiki-bugs@nadir-seen-f | |ire.com Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #5 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Do we have any report/measure/guesstimate on how many wikis changed this to > > false and what effects they experienced? > > Self-answer: I saw some, on a website selling tools to spam wikis which I > opened coming from a recent mediawiki-l discussion. Wikis without nofollow > are > definitely targeted more at least by some spammers, the default should be > changed only by installations with an interest in it and which are conscious > of > the decision. Can you go into detail how you determined that those bots take nofollow into account and that the bots that do so add spam not trivially combated by other anti-spam tools. ---- I'm re-opening this since it doesn't look like it was closed based on a real discussion. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
